Coming of Age

Chapter 2

©CRGangell aka Whitesabretooth

Chapter 2

Thais sat on the lounge room floor a week later, his cello was before him. While he was playing the night before he thought the notes sounded a little flat, so he was restringing both his cello and his bow. Temperance joined him after pushing the coffee table out of the way; she was replacing the skins on each drum of her kit. Because her drum was a part of her calming technique they took a lot of beatings and the skins got damaged, so she replaced them often. It would take her almost the entire afternoon to replace the skins correctly and reconstruct her kit but like playing it, fixing and tuning were a part of her calming therapy.

Temperance’s drum kit was a true masterpiece to the art of drumming, if it could be added to her kit, it was added. There are ten cymbals, two sets of hi hats, three different snares (each with their own sound,) two bass drums, four floor toms and five high toms(mounted,) with chimes, tambourine and bells to finish the kit off. But her drum kit wasn’t the only instruments she had; she had all manner of percussion instruments as she liked to hit things.

Temperance’s drum kit however was her baby, just like Serenity’s fourteen stringed guitar, was her baby and Thais’s eight string cello was his baby. The instruments weren’t easy to play but for the triplets that was the allure of them, not only playing them but composing on instruments that fellow musicians balked at.

Rachel walked in with some books and glanced at the siblings as they worked. “Hi Rachel.” Thais said before he glanced up. “Take a seat.”

“You said we were going to study avian physiology.” Rachel said as she walked into the room and sat on the couch.

“Yeah sorry, I was playing last night and it doesn’t sound right. Not to worry though, I have read the books before and have a photographic memory.” Thais told her as he attached the new C string.

Serenity walked into the room, “ah… I see I’m not the only one needing to fix an instrument.” She held her guitar by the neck. Sitting in a chair she quickly removed the old strings, all fourteen of them before she started to restring.

“So you all play an instrument?” Rachel asked.

The triplets all looked at her, “one… two… three... Serenity can play almost anything with strings without really trying.” Thais explained, “But she prefers twelve at the moment.”

“A lot of those are different types of guitars, two types of harps, the violin and a few types of lute.” Serenity answered.

“I play any kind of percussion instrument and Thais plays the base as well as the cello.” Temperance added.

“And the others?” Rachel asked.

“Myth plays panpipes and reed flutes, Crystal plays as many instruments as I do if not more and Han… I don’t think I’ve ever seen him play.” Serenity supplied.